An hour later the four people were sitting in a big condo as they all ate food. It was Fausto, Leonora, Karma and Livia who were all there. Livia was just there for some reason as she just happened to tag along. While there was Karma and Leonora living there at Fausto’s place. On the second day of work, Fausto told the two to go and live with him. At first, he thought that two young women who were single for some reason would say no to him but they said yes as they somehow packed all their things in an instant. Fausto thought that Leonora’s family would say no, but they surprisingly said yes like it was nothing. Did they not like their child that much?

  So far Karma wasn’t talking as she was thinking about something. She would occasionally glance but whenever Fausto looked at her she would go back to staring at her food as she turned red. Leonora however was rather happy as she wore a new outfit as she was trying to style it with the new necklace she got.

  “So what do you think? Looks good right?” Leonardo said as she was showing off her outfit.

  “It looks nice. But you don’t have to talk about it like it's that important.”

  “I have to, this is my favourite gift I ever got.” Hugging her necklace, it seemed like she really liked it a lot. Even when she had it for half a day, she already had an outfit for the necklace.

  “Really?” Fausto said as he thought being in the twelve families of the order they would have given her much better gifts.

  “Hmmm...you didn’t know?? Her family, despite giving her such an expensive gift was never to her liking. But this is the first one that she ever loved.” Livia noted. Which then got Leonora to give a friendly tap.

  “Don’t say it like that. I do love my family gifts.” Leonora tried to say. But Livia continued.

  “Yet out of all the time I have hung out with you, you never wear them. Even on last year's birthday, you wore them only during that day, never after.” Livia pointed out.

  “Don’t say it like… if my parents heard that, they would be sad.”

  “Well, it's the truth.” Livia kept saying. But this raises a question that Fausto has been wondering.

  “....Why are you still single then? Knowing your face and personality, many of the twelve families would love to have you as a daughter or anyone, for that matter." Which then struck Leonora like a thorn that pierced her. Livia then laughed as well as she couldn’t help but want to talk about it.

  “Actually.”

  “Don’t say it!!” Leonora said.

  “But I have to…”

  “No..please…”

  “Her dad is overprotective.”

  ‘“Livia!!!!” Leonora was now getting angry as she stopped eating. This was because it was an embarrassing setback at her age, her dad wouldn't let her date. But this must be because of her illness of sorts, and to make sure no one took advantage of her. Fausto however already knew the problem and found the dad worrying too much. But he didn’t seem to think about that right now since the dad was okay with letting her live with him. Though he did notice a certain person planning to spy on him pretty soon.

  “What? It's the truth, right Karma??” They all looked at her, but she was just slowly eating as she didn’t pay attention at all. Well, she wasn’t eating to be exact as she was letting the food drop off her fork every time.

  “Karma...hello???” Livia said.

  “Are you alright? You've been acting weird these last few hours?” Leonora noted as she was touching her forehead. But Karma was still not even paying attention. This then caused Livia to smile as she said these few words.

  “Fausto, can you check on Karma? I think she might be sick.” But the moment he got closer to him, Karma instantly got up.

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  “No no it's fine!! I'm just tired! I will go get ready for sleep!!”

  “But you barely ate your food?” Fausto said. “It’s a bad example if doctors don’t pay attention to their health.” Listening to his words, she quickly ate her food.

  “There I’m done……..huuu..!!! Night!!” Karma then quickly left while having a bunch of food in her mouth as she headed to her room. Which then got everyone rather curious.

  “I wonder if she has been working hard,” Leonora said.

  “Must be work…. sometimes it does get to you.” Fausto agreed. But Livia sighs as she looks at both of them.

  “And you two call yourselves geniuses.”

  “Agreed…haaah…” Faust said in Fausto's head as he was disappointed as well. Which then left Leonora and Fausto confused.

  In Karma’s room, she was face-planting on her pillow in confusion. Still thinking about the kiss, she didn't know what to take from it. After all, it was her first. Leonardo didn’t count for her since she treated it like CPR. It's not like she didn’t want it at all but it was so unexpected. She didn’t have time to react to it. Then he said that he wanted her to say his real name. What was that about?

  She was thinking that something was wrong because his demeanour changed all of a sudden, as though nothing had happened at all. Did it not mean anything to him…yet when he started, he looked nervous like it was his first time. But during the entire meal, he didn’t bother to pay attention to her as though nothing happened. She then grabbed her ribbon as she felt how smooth it was. Feeling like she was in a trance, she didn’t know how to express this feeling.

  “AHHH That bastard!! For making me feel this way, I will do everything to beat him up.” Karma then started to exercise as first to distract herself. At the same time, she wanted to get stronger. It has been a long time since she had lost and knew of Fausto's strength so she was going to get ready for tomorrow. “Just you wait, I will punch you in the face.”

  “Achoo!!’ Faust sneezed strangely as it was weird that he could as he wasn’t actively present in the body.

  “How can you sneeze when you aren’t out...” Fausto said as he was walking outside.

  “I don’t know….it really is weird…” He was thinking about who would be talking about him. Fausto then walked to the entrance as he then got in front of a gaming cafe. Keeping a mask to hide himself, he made sure that no one would pester him. Not with Menace’s mask but just a random mask to cover himself. One time, he went to a gaming center, and many people asked for health advice for some reason, which gave him no time to even play. Most of them were obvious answers as he told many of them to exercise. So he got a fake id and everything so that no one would know his identity.

  “Welcome to the League of Gaming, are you here for the tournament?” A young receptionist said. Fausto then looked around, as there was a larger crowd than usual.

  “But I don’t have a team??” He said he just wants to play a few games and then leave. It has been a while since he played as well. But then again, he never had friends to begin with. He would do everything solo. The good news was that they paid well. Especially when you are good at it.

  “Well you can put your rank and gamer name here. If you do, someone, if they have a spot available, will call your name. Are you okay with that?” Fausto just wanted to be alone as he didn’t want any attention at all.

  “Why not Fausto, you were a skilled player, why not try. Besides, the prize is about ten thousand dollars so you might as well earn some money.” Faust said. As gaming has also been considered a sport, the prizes have also grown in size so minor teams or organizations can participate in them. This is to help nurture talent as Diviners wished to help talent be able to grow with every level, so all is given the opportunity to reach their full potential. So the money does help finance individuals to keep people afloat. Even for Fausto as he earns some money from these tournaments. It was the reason he was able to pay off his school fees to get his doctoral degree.

  “But I have a lot of money,” Fausto said. Being a good doctor, he has amassed a large fortune. Not to mention, Faust had been paid a king's ransom when it came to killing a few unlucky targets. Even though they are on opposite sides of the spectrum, they both enjoy the benefits of being good at their own field. Low-key in Fausto’s shadow lies a fortune that would rival any wealthy businessman. However, he keeps that in reserve.

  “Come on. You are a really good player and you might as well challenge yourself against other good players.” Hearing that Fausto has been rather bored lately and he really did feel that being in a somewhat serious competition was a good opportunity to see how rusty he was.

  “Alright well let's just sign up,” Fausto said as he paid the entrance fee. He then went to the computer to play a quick game. Within a few minutes, as he sat there were three that approached him.

  “Hey you are twoface00?” Someone asked just as he was about to start playing a game.

  “Uhm..yes??”

  “Great my name is horrible2B, I have a team of three and we were asking if you would like to be our Attack damage carry?”

  “Ah sure.. But don’t we need another person?”

  “Oh don’t worry we found a new person here. She is called sasslady7.” They then pointed at her as she was wearing a cap, mask and a long hoodie. She was even wearing sunglasses while keeping her face down. Fausto then looked at her as he couldn’t help but feel like he knew her.

  “So what is she going to be playing as….?” Fausto said.

  “Well unfortunately, we three friends are taking the top half so you two is going to have to take the bottom half. Is that okay?” Horrible said. Fausto then looked at this so-called sasslady23 and just like her she hasn’t played awhile. But her skills were insanely good to be exact to the point that she was playing against some pros based on how she was practising. She was pretty good.

  “Okay then that's fine,” Fausto said. He then joined the team.

  “We don’t expect much from you because you are a plat player but you should be fine with her.” Horrible said. Fausto didn’t say anything as he then got up to follow along.

  “Why didn’t you give them your real account?” Faust asks.

  “Because it's no fun if they know who I am.” Fausto shrugged as he was once a really good player. A really good one as he reached ranked one in the server. But he didn’t like using that account as he would often get scouted. With his preference to stay hidden, he preferred to not talk to people so he gets a new account to avoid that problem altogether. The moment he revealed his account he would already get a lot of attention he didn’t want. So its better he just used the account that he plays around with. Just a relaxing time playing games alone. But little did he know the lady next to her would be accompanying him on games from now on.